"A system’s behavior is the product of its structure, not its stated goals.
Read the quote as instruction, not as comfort. In a reliability improvement that shifts risk elsewhere, the word structure is where the cost hides. If you miss it, you will pay it later.
In a reliability improvement that shifts risk elsewhere, the temptation is to optimize the visible part and assume the rest will adapt. That is how good intentions become bad outcomes. You see it in a cache added for speed that quietly changes correctness semantics. A standard you cannot apply in one pass is not a standard; it is a preference disguised as governance.
Donella H. Meadows is a reminder to keep it concrete. State the non-goal and the boundary that keeps scope from turning into a rewrite. Stop while it is still simple.